ASIAN ETHNOLOGY Volume 79 (1)

AE / Volumes Asian Ethnology 79 (1)

This volume contains 30 articles.

Editors’ Note Benjamin Dorman and Frank J. Korom

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition Ziying You and Patricia Ann Hardwick

Kutiyattam, Heritage, and the Dynamics of Culture: Claiming India’s Place within a Global Paradigm Shift Leah Lowthorp

Heritage Production in National and Global Cultural Policies: Folkloristics, Politics, and Cultural Economy in Ryukyuan/Okinawan Performance Hideyo Konagaya

*Mak Yong*, a UNESCO “Masterpiece”: Negotiating the Intangibles of Cultural Heritage and Politicized Islam Patricia Ann Hardwick

Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of the Chinese Ethnic Qiang’s “Cultural Reconstruction” after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake Qiaoyun Zhang

Culinary Tensions: Chinese Cuisine’s Rocky Road toward International Intangible Cultural Heritage Status Philipp Demgenski

Conflicts over Local Beliefs: “Feudal Superstitions” as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China Ziying You

Reviews/Films

*Chidra* (Nadav Harel, Director, & Arik Moran, Writer) Steven E. Lindquist

Reviews/Books/General

*Theoretical Milestones: Selected Writings of Lauri Honko* (Hakamies, Pekka and Anneli Honko, eds. ); *The Theory of Culture of Folklorist Lauri Honko, 1932-2002: The Ecology of Tradition* (Kamppinen, Matti and Pekka Hakamies) Dan Ben-Amos

Reviews/Books/China

*Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways* (Jin Feng); *Meiwei you quanli: Yige Huabei cunzhuang 70 nian yinshi shenghuo bianqian* (Guo Huiling) Thomas David DuBois

*Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China* (Levi S. Gibbs) Colin Mackerras

*The Great Han, Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today* (Kevin Carrico) Colin Mackerras

*Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World* (Franck Billé and Sören Urbansky, eds. ) Karen T. Sy de Jesus

*Many Faces of Mulian: The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China* (Rostislav Berezkin) Xiaosu Sun

Reviews/Books/India

*Himalayan Histories: Economy, Polity, Religious Traditions* (Chetan Singh) Bernardo Michael

*The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder* (Tulasi Srinivas) Laura M. Dunn

*In the Shadows of the Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India* (Jelle J. P. Wouters) Roderick Wijunamai

*Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India* (Laura Dudley Jenkins) Sarbeswar Sahoo

*Guest is God: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Making Paradise in India* (Drew Thomases) James G. Lochtefeld

Reviews/Books/Japan

*Tokyo Listening: Sound and Sense in a Contemporary City* (Lorraine Plourde) Paul Hansen

*Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar* (Chika Watanabe) Patrick McCartney

*Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan* (Hiroko Matsuda) Arne Røkkum

*Food Safety After Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and the Politics of Risk* (Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna) Susanne Klien

*Escaping Japan: Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century* (Blai Guarné and Paul Hansen, eds. ) Daesung Kwon

Reviews/Books/South Asia

*Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora* (Gayatri Gopinath) Hafsa Arain

*The Regulation of Religion and the Making of Hinduism in Colonial Trinidad* (Alexander Rocklin) Teruyuki Tsuji

Reviews/Books/South Korea

*Gender and Class in Contemporary South Korea: Intersectionality and Transnationality* (Hae Yeon Choo, John Lie, and Laura C. Nelson, eds.) Hyaeweol Choi

*Migrant Conversions: Transforming Connections between Peru and South Korea* (Erica Vogel) Paul Capobianco

Reviews/Books/Tibet

*Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area* (Emilia Roza Sulek) Per Kværne